36: Civilian car? This is an all-terrain tank.

"It's like this, General Manager Meng."

"Although I am the Chairman of Guoguang Group, it is a large company after all and requires convincing other directors and senior executives."

"Therefore, I'd like to pre-order a thousand sets of chip tape-outs, do you think that's okay?"

Strength is the most convincing thing.

When Meng Hao spent half an hour taking out the World's top chip wafers, everyone from Li Bin to Director Shen Jie and their close followers were completely convinced by him.

Not only did their attitudes become extremely solicitous and polite, but even their forms of address changed to "General Manager Meng" and "You".

"Regarding the price, each wafer will be calculated at 450,000."

"Let's pre-order a hundred wafers first, to round it up for you, it will be fifty million... but when we purchase chips again in the future, you'll have to give us a better price."

"The design blueprint is for another model of ours, which is also Guoguang Group's next main model."

"The information is with Director Shen Jie, he will give it to you later."

"Oh, and Director Shen, please stay for now. After the wafers are produced, you can take them back to Kyoto."

The 12-inch wafers produced by Meng Hao's factory can yield 57 process technology chips per wafer, so 100 wafers would be 57,600 chips.

Calculated at an 80% yield rate, that would be 46,080 chips.

Internationally, the price of a 12nm process technology chip is 1,000 yuan each, totaling 46 million.

Li Bin offering an acquisition price of 50 million was indeed a gift to Meng Hao.

"Okay, deal."

"If you have any special requirements, you can mention them."

Meng Hao was in a good mood.

Selling mechs indeed brings in money quickly, but second-generation rich kids who can afford a mech costing ten million are already considered top young masters in China. Relying on selling mechs on the Tao Wang Platform is ultimately not a long-term plan.

What is the most profitable?

Real industry.

Heavy industry.

Military industrial products.

Compared to selling mechs as toys to young masters, Meng Hao was more inclined to open his own factory... or even a military weapons factory.

For core industrial products like chips, an order can easily reach tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions.

And if there's a chance to get involved in the military industry, money would pour in like a flood... No, to be precise, a deluge, a sea!

You should know that a typical light main battle tank has a procurement price easily in the tens of millions.

If the mechs were further improved, with the permission of the China Military, and equipped with relevant weapons of mass destruction, they could become war mechs.

With the economic strength of the military and even the entire China, orders would be in the billions.

In comparison, the "toy market" of these second-generation rich kids like Wang Cong is really just a small-scale operation.

Li Bin smiled faintly.

Even if Meng Hao didn't speak up, he would have brought it up himself.

"There are indeed some special requirements."

"Among the hundred chip wafers, ten are for the main control chip, and the other ninety are for chips with nine different design blueprints."

"These chips are expansion chips for the main control chip and need to form a linked relationship with the main control chip."

Hmm?

100 wafers, actually 10 different blueprints?

Let alone ordinary cars, do even high-tech new energy vehicles need so many chips for control?

Chips are similar to the Human brain.

A car is like a person; it only needs one brain, one chip, to meet all control requirements for daily life.

Now, equipping a car with 10 chips, 9 of which are expansion chips, is that really necessary?

Or perhaps?

One chip, one brain, is the commander.

The remaining 9 chips, 9 brains, are the subordinates.

In other words, the unit with the main control chip is the commander of the Human brains, directing and managing the other nine Humans, forming a combat team to carry out operational missions.

Could it be that Li Bin's ultimate requirement is not just car manufacturing, but building military-purpose war vehicles?

Li Bin, seeing Meng Hao's confusion, explained with a smile.

"The other chips respectively possess fire control capabilities, all-terrain off-road capabilities, and radar scanning capabilities."

"Our Guoguang Automobile products are bound to be high-quality goods."

"You should have no problem with that, right?"

Holy crap.

Meng Hao really guessed correctly.

Where in the hell is this building civilian vehicles? This is completely a combat unit.

Fire control capability, that's what an intelligent turret needs...

All-terrain off-road capability, that's a tank's attribute...

Radar scanning capability, that's the requirement of a military reconnaissance unit...

What the hell.

Whose car needs to be able to detect the enemy's location, then traverse mountains and rivers, cross mountains and ridges, reach the target area, and then conduct full-coverage strikes with a fire control turret?

"Speaking of which, do civilian vehicles need so many functions?"

"Are you really building cars?"

Meng Hao asked unconsciously.

Facing this question, Li Bin smiled without answering, and instead asked back.

"Just now, when we visited your factory, we saw that besides the chip production workshop having equipment, another production workshop with a sealed door also had equipment."

"May I ask, General Manager Meng, if that production workshop isn't producing chips, what is it producing?"

Li Bin.

As General Chen Chen's comrade-in-arms.

A person arranged by General Yan Yizheng to take over as the head of Guoguang Automobile Group locally.

Naturally, he had already learned through the channels of Yan Yizheng and Chen Chen that the Multi-Frequency Stealth Coating was developed by Meng Hao.

He also guessed that the equipment in that sealed production workshop was actually the production line for the Multi-Frequency Stealth Coating.

And his Guoguang Automobile Group is not just a simple civilian car manufacturing enterprise.

Behind this enterprise stands the Eastern Theater Command, and even the entire China Military.

Facing Li Bin's question, Meng Hao was stunned for a moment and answered subconsciously.

"It concerns business secrets!"

Li Bin immediately took over the conversation.

"Then, what you asked me also falls under business secrets!"

Meng Hao was stunned for a moment.

Then he started laughing.

And Li Bin also smiled alongside him.

The two of them had already guessed what the other was thinking.

"In the future, we will have more opportunities for cooperation!"

Li Bin actively extended his hand.

Of course, the opportunity for cooperation he referred to was certainly not just purchasing chips, but the Multi-Frequency Stealth Coating.

"I look forward to cooperating with you."

Meng Hao shook Li Bin's hand.

What he was thinking of, naturally, was also the Multi-Frequency Stealth Coating, in addition to the chip business.

The two who understood each other without words smiled like two foxes, one large and one small.

Meanwhile, Director Shen Jie and the other confidantes, who were kept in the dark, were completely bewildered and confused by the two men's laughter.

...

Li Bin, with a spring in his step and joy in his heart, left Director Shen Jie behind and returned to Kyoto, the headquarters of Guoguang Automobile Group, with a few confidantes.

As Li Bin walked into the headquarters building, his expression immediately turned gloomy and depressed, giving people the illusion that he was in a very bad mood.

And Li Bin returned to the Guoguang Group headquarters building empty-handed, with a look of displeasure and poor mood, and Director Shen Jie, who had just been promoted, had also disappeared.

Immediately, various speculations and negative rumors flew everywhere among the Vice Chairmen, senior executives, and middle management of Guoguang Automobile Group.